Paramount Pictures has begun developing a live-action film adaptation of Cyberpunk 2077, with CD Projekt Red attached as a producer. The project is in development, as first reported by Engadget.
The planned feature would bring CD Projekt Red’s video game to the screen in a new format. Paramount is developing the movie, while the Polish game studio has a producing role on the project.
CD Projekt Red will help produce the adaptation
The producer credit gives the company behind Cyberpunk 2077 a formal place in the film’s development. That does not establish how much creative control CD Projekt Red will hold, though it does connect the game’s developer to the project as Paramount builds the adaptation.
Video game films increasingly involve the companies that made or own the underlying games. For this project, CD Projekt Red’s participation matters because the movie is drawing from an existing title rather than a newly created Paramount property. The studio will have to turn an interactive game into a single live-action feature with its own structure and audience expectations.
Development is underway, but the film remains at an early stage
Paramount’s move adds Cyberpunk 2077 to the growing list of games being considered for film and television adaptations. The format creates a separate path for a game’s setting and ideas, while also placing more attention on how closely a screen version connects to the source material.
For players, the key significance is CD Projekt Red’s involvement at the production level. A rights holder working alongside a major film studio can help maintain continuity between the original game and its screen adaptation, although no details have been provided about how that relationship will work in practice.
Paramount and CD Projekt Red have not disclosed a release date, cast, director, screenwriter, plot, or production schedule. It is also unclear whether filming has started, or when the project might move from development into production.
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